HULL FORM DEFINITION FOR DESIGN AND PRODUCTION--A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF EXISTING FAIRING METHODS AND A NOVEL METHOD FOR TESTING FAIRING ACCURACY FOR DETAIL DESIGN AND PRODUCTION

Fully automated ship design will be achieved only when preliminary design and construction drawings use the same mathematical expressions. One of the steps along the way is the perfection of computerized fairing programs that can handle chines, sonar domes, bulbous bows and other abrupt changes in hull form. The FAIR TEST system is a set of computer programs developed to check computer faired lines. It has been successfully used for two ship designs and consists of the following subprograms: (1) PRESERV (Preservation of Form), (2) 3rd VIEW (Consistency Between Views), (3) SMOOTH (Smoothness). This paper presents these programs.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the International Conference on Computer Applications in the Automation of Shipyard Operation and Ship Design, held by IFIP/IFAC/JSNA, Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 28-30, 1973.
• Corporate Authors:

  North Holland Publishing Company

  335 Jan Van Galenstraat, P.O. Box 103
  Amsterdam-W,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Leopold, R
  • Diamant, P T
• Publication Date: 1973

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 18 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Computers; Hulls; Information processing; Naval architecture; Ships; Vehicle design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Computer aided analysis; Ship design
• Subject Areas: Design; Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00052014
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Purdue University
• Report/Paper Numbers: No. VII-4
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 26 1974 12:00AM